Window seat



Dec. 21 1926. 1,611,649

R. R. LAURITA WINDOW SEAT Filed May 7, 1926 y /A l 1.? 7 76 Z I r '2.

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ROBERT ROCCO LAURITA, OF NEW YORK, N. 51, ASSIG-NGR OF ONE-HALF T ALFRED F. BEDARD, OF BROGKLYN, NEW YORK.

WINDOW SEAT.

Application filed May 7,

Th s invention relates to window seats, an object of the invention being to provide a window seat which when once adjusted can be easily removed from one window and placed upon another in the same building without the necessity of other adjustment.

A further object is to provide a window seat which is of extremely simple and durable construction, which is capable of a wide range of adjustment for all necessary purposes, which will be strong and durable in use, and which will most efficiently perform the fuuctmns for which it is intended.

The primary use of the device is to provide a seat or platform which extends outside of the building and on which a window washer, painter or other workman may sit or stand without danger of the support giv ing away.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will he more fully l'iereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the aecon'ipanying drawings Figure 1. is a view in longitudinal section, shmving my improved window seat in operative position;

Figure 2 is an inverted plan view of my improved window seat;

Figure 3 is a view in transverse section on the line 33 of Figure 2.

1 represents a window frame, 2 the lower member or support of the frame, 3 the window sill, and a the inner head or enlargement with which practically all window frames are provided.

My improved window seat includes a board 5, which may be made of any desired shape, thickness and material but is, preferably, slightly narrower at one end, as indicated at 6.

On the under face of this board 5, a metal bar 7 is secured and extends longitudinally throughout the central portion of the board and may be connected thereto by screws 8 or other suitable devices. The inner end of this bar 7 is bent, forming a hook 9, which adapted to engage over the enlargement 4t of the window frame, as clearly indicated in Figure 1.

The bar 7 provided intermediate its ends with a longitudinal slot 10, and the 1926. Serial No. 507.419.

board itself back of this slot is cut out, as shown at 11, to accommodate the head 12 of a coach bolt 13. This bolt 13 is of the type generally known as a coach bolt, having an angular portion 1% adjacent the head 12, and this angular portion is movable in the slot but prevents the bolt from turning movement.

15 represents a block of any desired length and to which a bar 16 is secured. he bar 16 is laterally offset at its intermediate portion, as shown at 17, so as to fit over the bar 7 and prevent possibility of pivotal movement of the block 15 relative to the seat. The block 15 is cut out or recessed, as shown at 18, to facilitate the mani 'inlation of a wing nut 19 which screwed on the bolt 13.

The bolt 13 is projected through an opening 20 in the bar 16 so that when the nut 19 is screwed home the block will be rigidly secured against accidental movement relative to the platform.

This block 15 is of such shape in transverse section as to correspond to the shape of the window sill 3 and the lower supporting portion of the window frame or sill, and in cooperation with the hook portion rigidly secures the seat against accidental movement.

By adjusting the bolt in the slot 10 the position of the block can be varied to suit conditions, but after it is once adjusted and secured it is not necessary to adjust the same for each window as the windows of most buildings are alike, so it is only necessary for the operator to grasp the outer end of the seat, elevate the same slightly and then move the hook portion 9 away from the window frame, so that the seat can be conveniently carried from one window frame to another.

In placing the-seat on the window frame, the hook 9 is first engaged with the seat at an angle, and thenthe seatis swung clownward to bring the block 15 into place.

The slot 10 at one end is preferably formed with an opening 22 of sufficient size to allow the head 12 of bolt 13 to be moved through the same to facilitate the assemblage or separation of the parts as occasion may require.

Various slight changes and alterations might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A Window seat, comprising a board, a bar secured longitudinally to the under face of the board and having a hook at one end, said bar having a longitudinal slot therein 7 and said board having a recess back of the slot, a block positioned transversely of the board, a bar fixed to the block and having a laterally offset intermediate portion straddling the first-mentioned bar and preventing pivotal movement of the block relative to the seat, a bol t having its head portion back of the firstanentioned bar, said bolt having' an angular portion within the slot said ast-nientioned bar having an opening receiving the bolt, and a nut on said bolt clamping the parts together, said block having a recess therein to accommodate the nut.

ROBERT ROCCO LAURITA. 

